The DA wants to transfer Couch’s sentence to adult court. The change would extend his time on probation.
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The Marshals Service alerted Mexican authorities, who detained Couch and his mother on Monday, the official said. Vera said owing to a shortage of seats on Tuesday flights to Houston, the two were now more likely to return to Texas on Wednesday from Jalisco’s state capital, Guadalajara.
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Authorities say the 18-year-old Ethan Couch, who used “affluenza” as a defense in the fatal drunken-driving wreck, fled with his mother to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, as prosecutors investigated whether he had violated his probation.
“I would like for him to be held accountable as I’ve said all along”.
Sheriff Anderson said he was not surprised by the pair seeking the delay. “That is what we have been told on different occasions”.
USA national Ethan Couch is pictured in this undated handout photograph made available to Reuters on December 29, 2015 by the Jalisco state prosecutor office.- Reuters picCouch and his mother apparently entered the country by land, said Ricardo Vera, a local official for Mexico’s National Migration Institute.
Anderson said authorities began to zero in on the Couches’ whereabouts Thursday. Once returned to Texas, Couch will be held in a Tarrant County facility until a probation violation hearing January 19. No matter what happens at that hearing, this run from the law is a matter for the juvenile court meaning 120 days in jail is likely the maximum punishment he could receive. “So the legal issue is: Can the prosecutor move this case to adult court and try to get adult sanctions, get some state prison time. That judge at that time thought it was in the best interest of the child”.
“I no longer think it’s appropriate for this defendant”, Wilson said.
Investigators received information from people who know the Couches and “dozens and dozens of calls of sightings” of them or their pickup truck, he said.
He has been serving 10 years’ probation for intoxication manslaughter, a sentence critics saw as far too light.
In such a situation, Wilson said her office would seek to have the sentences stacked, meaning Couch could be sentenced to 40 years in prison.
Lawyers for Ethan Couch won a delay in his deportation based on a constitutional appeal in Mexico that could lead to a weekslong legal process.
The internet was furious at Couch for a while, then sort of forgot about him, until earlier this month, when a video emerged on social media that showed him amongst a group playing beer pong.
His mother was later declared missing. It wasn’t immediately clear if his mother, Tonya Couch, also would be granted a delay. This undated photo provided by the Jalisco state prosecutor’s office shows Tonya Couch.
Attorneys for the Couches released a statement prior to the press conference saying they had not yet heard from them.
“There can be no doubt that he will be in another courthouse one day blaming the lenient treatment he received here”, Alpert said.
During the trial, psychologist G. Dick Miller claimed that Couch was a victim himself – a victim of poor parenting.
And she told the teen that he, not his parents, is responsible for his actions. All four of the pedestrians were killed when Couch plowed into them with his pickup.
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Twelve people were injured, including Sergio Molina and Solaiman Mohman, teens who were Couch’s passengers. Molina suffered a traumatic brain injury.
